Cigar-case



(No Model.)

J. O. ULLIN.

CIGAR CASE.

No. 486,004. Patented Nov. 8, 1892.

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WI 7'NE SSE S A TTOBNEYS.

NETED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN O. ULLIN, OF LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN.

CIGAR-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,004, dated November 8, 1892. Application filed March 25, 1892. Serial No. 426,375. (No model) T0 0LZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN O. ULLIN, of Ludington, in the county of Mason and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Cigar-Cases, of which the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object the more perfect and cleaner use of a cigar that, not having been wholly consumed or smoked out at one operation, dies outoris reservedthat is to say, so much as remains of itfor further use by relighting it, so that one and the same cigar may be made to serve for two or three separate and distinct smoking operations and each time be easy to light by reason of its presenting a cleancut or exposed lightingend surface.

To these ends the invention consists in a longitudinally opening and closing case adapted to hold a partly-burned cigar within it and provided internally with knives or cutters that, when the case is shut, operate to sever the burned end or portion of the cigar carrying or forming the ash from the remainderofit,substantiallyashereinafterdescribed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formingapart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of my improved cigar-case in its open position and showing by dotted lines a partlyburned cigar therein ready to be cut by the closing of the case, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

The casethat is, its body partwhich may be made of any suitable metal or other material, is constructed of two longitudinal hollow or concave portions A A, hinged together along their one edge, as at b, and adapted when closed to hold the cigar equally, or thereabout, throughout its thickness within them. To this end the case is preferahly made of a rounded and tapering cigarlike shape, and when its sections A A are shut together they may loe held closed by a spring or other suitablecatch c. In theinteriorof the one dished or hollow section A, at a short distance from its one end, is secured a shallow transverse knife or Cutter d of concave shape on its cutting-edge, while the other dished or hollow section A has a similarly-arranged broader or deeper transverse knife or cutter d of greater depth and of convex form on its cuttingedge, so that when the two sections A A are shut together the knife d will work close down or past the cutter CZ.

When it is required to preserve a partly burned cigar for further use, it, with its ash end or burned portion, is laid in the casesection A, with the forward end of the cigar haw ing the ash on it immediately over the knife d and over the short end cavity e in said section formed by said knife, so that on shutting the other section A upon the section A its knife d, acting conjointly with the knife d, which acts in the capacity of a cutting-block, will make a clean cut of the burned end of the cigar and leave it deposited in the short end cavities e e of the case, while the remainder of the cigar will be left in the other portion of the case back of the knives, with its front end surface in a condition to admit of its being evenly and easily lighted when the unused portion of the cigar is taken out of the case for a succeeding smoke. This action and use of the case may be repeated two or more times till the whole cigar is consumed by repeated and separate or distinct smoking operations. The ash or burned portion of the Cigar left in the case maybe separately emptied out of it each time and none of it be left adhering to the un burned portion of the cigar to give the latter an unpleasant taste or odor or to make dirt or dust about the person when lighting and smoking it.

I do not restrict myself to any precise shape of the case or knives therein,as these may be changed without changing the operation or action of the case.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. As a new article of manufacture,acigarcase composed of two longitudinal opening and closing sections adapted to hold a partlyburned cigar siugly within it and provided in ternally with transverse knives or cutters arranged intermediately of the length of the case, substantially as specified.

2. In a cigar-case of the character described, the two longitudinal concave opening and closing sections A A, mnged together along said knives being arranged approximately their one edge, as at Z7, and provided inter opposite each other, essentially as and for the nally intermediately of the length of the case, 1

the one With a shall0w transverse knife or 5 eutter d, having a concave cutting-edge, and Witnesses:

purpose herein set f0rth.

JOHN O. ULLIN.

the other With a dee-per transverse knife or cutter d of convex form on its cutting-edge,

FRANK E. PETERSON, J OHN PHELAN. 

